Viocare, Inc. — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase II: Development of a fully functioning mobile location-based healthy dining locator tool calle
Viocare, Inc. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Health and Human Services.
- Amount
- $1,000,000
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NJ
- Period
- —
Description
Development of a fully functioning mobile location-based healthy dining locator tool called VioDine. The VioDine innovation include: 1) use of global positioning system (GPS) based mobile application to locate restaurants within proximity of the VioDine user, 2) nutrition information about the menus available in those restaurants, 3) information about the user's nutrition needs, preferences and previously identified barriers to fulfilling these needs, 4) a library of messages tailored to encourage choice ofhealthy options in the restaurant of choice, and 5) incentives for the user and restaurant to use VioDine.